Ask HN: Do you ever randomly seem to be logged into HN as a different user?

I don't know jrockway, but somehow it seems like I'm logged in as him/her for a split second. Usually if I refresh a few times it goes away.

I wonder if the first three letters of our usernames being the same has any relation to the issue. I never find myself logged in as anyone else.

All the time, and not just one user. We're all on the same network though, which may account for the issue.

This has been reported before; I seem to recall that it was due to aggressive caching by proxies. Someone reported the same thing happening with gmail, as well (before they switched to all-https).

i sometimes see that also. i looked up and found a j.rockway in my corporate directory and just assumed i was seeing a cached banner of his.

yep. we all work at the bank it seems :)

I e-mailed pg about it, he says it should be fixed.

I suggest you email pg and let him know.

Ah. I thought it might be an easter egg, not a bug. I will go ahead and drop him a line though.